In searching for the quote for my next post, I stumbled across this Guardian blog. The following is a list of "organ grinder's" least favourite programmes on BBC Radio 4:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/09/the_worst_show_on_radio_4.html

I will have to admit to probably not having approached this organ grinder's thoughts in the most detached manner after he or she started with a negative comment on the late John Peel's radio programme "Home Truths". Still, we are all entitled to an opinion, so he / she of course should have his / hers.

But what are they talking with regard to Money Box?

"They (Money Box presenters) may as well talk in Japanese for all the sense it makes."

They (organ grinder) do not understand it, so it is bad!? I expect you are a text on rhetoric short of a bookshelf, "Organ grinder".

With regard to "In Our Time" presented by one of my inspirations Melvyn Bragg, he writes "It's like being locked in a university library with several tutors. On crack". A matter of preference perhaps, but to me that sounds like bliss!!!

I do half concur with him on "Any Answers" though. I only half concur, because I am not sure that taking it off the air would really achieve little more than drive such ignorantly formed opinions by callers to Any Answers behind closed doors.

John Peel reportedly had a photograph of Bill Shankly in his kitchen with the caption he had added "God: a likeness". I have had a photograph of Peel in my living room since winter 2006 with the same caption.